Raffles Van Excel, the Whitney Houston hanger-on who is now at the center of the investigation into the singer’s death, has been caught in what could be a damning contradiction about what he did in hours immediately following the discovery of her lifeless body.As RadarOnline.com previously reported, a witness has come forward and told Beverly Hills Police Department detectives that Van Excel was one of Houston’s cocaine suppliers and cleaned out her room at the Beverly Hilton hotel before law enforcement got to the scene.

And after her death, Van Excel said it fell to him to clean up her suite.

“I’m gathering all her clothes now,” he said. “We are checking out from the hotel tomorrow so someone’s got to do it.”

With Van Excel possibly back in the Netherlands, it is uncertain what access cops will have to him as they investigate where Whitney got the cocaine that was found in her system. There was no cocaine on the scene in her room.